Journey to the Centre of Arcanum

I just stopped loving Valve, for some reason. I wonder why?

 

Could it be Steam?

 

No, not Steam.....(rolls eyes)

Arcanum to have a sequel - destroyed in the planning stages. That's worse thean there being no plans for a sequel at all.

:grrr:

 

Fucking Valve.

 

Thank you so much for clarifying what the first post already said. I totally thought that we were just throwing in suggestions as to why Valve sucks. Glad you're here to set me straight.

It really is a shame, but it's not like Arcanum is the only game that's been blue-balled because of corporate greediness. One would think that split money over a game would be better than no money at all.

 

I am rightly chastened. I was re-stating the post because I couldn't express the resentment I felt at the time (i.e. I was drunk), however the grating way in which I would have said such a statement could not obviously have been appanernt in the mere words when robbed of their audible qualities. It actuallly is not the fact the there was money spent on a nixed project that I resent - I really don't care, what I disliked is I had put the possiblility of a Arcanum sequel in a grave with "No Fucking Way" for a headstone and this news only served to bring up the painful memories associated with putting it there in the first place.

 

Hum. Just have to break in here, even to this hasn't been to active.
Don't fuck valve. They just decided to break free from a company for release so they could go on and work themself. Sierras fault for giving all the internet sale for all valves titels to valve, ergo, they released steam.
Then Sierra tried to get back on them wich probaly fucked everyting up.

 

I STILL believe that one day there will be a sequel for Arcanum.

Maybe we won´t be alive to see, but....

well...

I know some people who would ressurrect to see that.

 

...You're joking right?

 

Can´t blame a guy for believing.

I tought there would never be a prince of persia sequel, and then....

 

Prince of Persia is a platformer/puzzle game, and therefore has a higher marketability.

 

Well, then we can try to count on the circles that fashion make, and hope that someday soon, Real roleplaying games return to the spotlight....

I hope they don´t change the system that much....

 

And, of course, they'll return to Arcanum as the sole inspiration for a new rpg, instead of say:
Final Fantasy
Elder Scrolls
WOW
Anything with a fucking dragon
Ultima Online
Possibly even a new idea that will undoubtedly suck
...

 

No, of course that Arcanum wouldn't be the preferential title, but if, in that hypothetical situation in wich Real RPGs went back into the spotlight, we could expect for a wave of them. It wouldn't be the first to return, but maybe, when they had already explored their money cows, and wish to use some unorthodox and innovative ideas...
If unorthodox, why not steampunk? If steampunk, why not reasonably well known and much awaited Arcanum2?

 

Your reasoning is completely flawless

 

I'll take it.

 

To be honest I think the problem would have been more on the Sierra side of things. Valve are generally cool about that side of stuff, Sierra aren't.

 

1. New fucktard hasn't read rules.

2. This is gravedigging I believe, wich is against the rules.